Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-11-18, great fight between Carl Frampton and Horacio Garcia: it gets three stars.The former world champion in two different weight classes Carl Frampton entered this fight with a boxing record of 23-1-0 (14 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.2 featherweight in the world. In his last two bouts he faced current #1 Leo Santa Cruz defeating the Mexican in 2016 (=Santa Cruz vs Frampton I) and losing the rematch (=Frampton vs Santa Cruz II).
His opponent, Horacio Garcia, has an official record of 33-3-1 (24 knockouts) and he entered as the No.50 in the same weight class. He has already fought four times in 2017 beating Josue Veraza, Fernando Vargas and Diuhl Olguin; before this bout he had lost to Olguin in their first clash. Frampton vs Garcia is the main event of the evening. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2017-11-18
Where: The SSE Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Division: featherweight (126 lbs, 57.2 kg)
Frampton’s previous fight: Carl Frampton vs Leo Santa Cruz 2
Frampton’s next fight: Carl Frampton vs Nonito Donaire
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Frampton vs Garcia full fight video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
I like Frampton but those scores were ridiculous! He didn’t win 7-8 rounds especially with the knockdown he took from Garcia. This was some homecooking by the judges that allowed Frampton to escape win a suspect victory to say the least.
I agree. Frampton was lucky to get out of this with a win at all, let alone by those ridiculous scores. If it had been a twelve-round fight, I think Garcia looked likely to power through to a victory over the spent Irishman.
In Frampton’s defense, he dug deep for a tenth round that in my view edged the fight in his favor.
Garcia has a hella of a chin.
very good fight with two boxers that put the best of themselves over the ring. Frampton is technically better, an accurate puncher who combine this with good displacements. Garcia, was pure action but was not enough for him to take the fight. The call for a knock down in my opinion was wrong. Frampton won the fight but the judges cards were too much in favor to his side. A round difference should be the result.